Exchange Currencies Rate

A go utility/library to fetch currencies using exchangeratesapi.io Please register on this site to get an API Key

Dependencies

• Database

  • sqlx to connect to db
  • goose for migration
  • lib-pq as database driver

• Please install goose globally to run migrations using

go install github.com/pressly/goose/v3/cmd/goose@latest

Run

• copy .env.example file to .env and replace API_KEY with your own which can be obtained by the linked website above

• Start the db using docker, please make sure docker is allowed to create /var/db/data directory, create the directory /var/db/data using sudo

sudo mkdir -p /var/db/data 
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/db/data
docker compose up -d

• Migrate the Database

make migrate-db

• Run the command

make run

This should fetch the details from the API and save them to DB and display the results from DB